"Old Hoffman was a member of the Church of the Harvest Goddess, but he was also a member of the Secret Keeper sect, a minor faction under the Church of the Harvest Goddess, responsible for guarding an Evil God that had been sealed by a legendary hero in the previous epoch."
Under Ferreiro's narration, Malin heard a somewhat absurd story—that legendary hero had slain an Evil God in a small village. Because the Evil God possessed the characteristic of eternal life, he ultimately sealed the god inside a sacred Starstone and then... planted it in his chest.
Malin thought about many questions, but in the end, he asked the one that puzzled him the most—How big was the stone?
"The kind of question you're asking is the problem, lad. Everyone else asks how powerful the Evil God is, only you would ask this," the old Bishop of the Church of the War God said with a look of surprise.
